Sentences with phrase «from immediate experience»

Although this activity was carried out randomly, I was careful to make sure that the spread of the slats did not take on an obvious shape nor have clear boundaries, since this would have detracted from the immediate experience of the work.

When the pain was at its worst, however, the best I could do was apply heat, try to relax, breathe deeply, and allow my mind to go some place else; a peaceful, tranquil, safe place as removed as possible from my immediate experience.

The problem is that people tend to generalize from their immediate experiences.

Images drawn from his immediate experiences and environment inform the work of emerging Toronto painter Christopher Combs.

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By wanting to learn from someone — even someone younger and less experienced than you — you will garner an immediate positive first impression.

Because in my experience, switching from a single spending account to two separate spending accounts with different purposes had an immediate positive effect on my family's finances.

By joining the Rotman EMBA program, you gain immediate access to the knowledge and experience of a network of seasoned international business managers — your fellow classmates, who come from around the world.

First up, taking a page from its own experience and immediate business environment, CoverHound is partnering with accelerators and incubators to offer insurance policies to startups.

If I have accepted the variety of usage and am looking to find or create a use to support metaphysical generalization, I can rely on the uniquely intimate and immediate revelation of my own experience — intuitively grasped from within — to authorize an insider's judgment about what reality is like at its heart.

Thereby the living power of the transcendent and omnipotent Judge is transposed in human experience into the dead body of Satan, as Milton's passage through the death of selfhood unveils the ground of an isolated selfhood as that chasm separating the creature from the Creator, thus making possible the reversal or dissolution of natural virtue and self - righteousness in the immediate and present actualization of the self - annihilation of God.

So for much, perhaps most, of the New Testament, the expectation of God's in - breaking is a present historical expectation; if in later writings New Testament authors appeared to alter that expectation from an outward, historical event to an inward, spiritual experience — in light of its lengthening delay — the church did not excise that earlier, more immediate expectation from the canon.

An immediate experience actually «structures itself» from within its own prereflective depths (p. 140).

For example, let us begin with this one: «If you start from the immediate facts of our psychological experience, as surely an empiricist should begin, you are at once led to the organic conception of nature (SMW 107).

Rather, gaining explicit knowledge from religious traditions allows one to reflect on the earlier immediate experience and to conclude that therein lay an «unthematized knowledge» of God.

19) of the Posterior Analytics, where Aristotle describes how the mind ascends to the first principles on which all science is grounded, he points out that the immediate point of departure of the inductive movement is not mere sense perception, but «experience»: «So from perception there comes memory, as we call it, and from memory (when it occurs often in connection with the same thing), experience; for memories that are many in number form a single experience.

Primary memory assures the survival of the immediate past in the present moment of experience, as distinct from «secondary memory» which recalls a more distant past into present experience.

Russell sought to construct scientific objects from the immediate sense objects of direct experience, whereas Whitehead begins with scientific objects and seeks to provide an explanation for the character of our direct experience.

In Art as Experience, in his efforts to define that imperceptible «quality» in our experience of the immediate world, Dewey stumbles from language about having «an experience,» to illustrations such as» «that was an experience,»» and «Experience, in his efforts to define that imperceptible «quality» in our experience of the immediate world, Dewey stumbles from language about having «an experience,» to illustrations such as» «that was an experience,»» and «experience of the immediate world, Dewey stumbles from language about having «an experience,» to illustrations such as» «that was an experience,»» and «experience,» to illustrations such as» «that was an experience,»» and «experience,»» and «that meal.

All of our most immediate experience of other occasions remains unconscious, qualifying consciousness only with a vague sense of derivation from the body.

All this «having» students do this, «asking» them to do that, and «instructing» them to do the other thing, as anyone knows with as much experience teaching college students as Professor Neuliep has (and I have over thirty years» experience myself), is going to result, some of the time, in compliance --- sometimes immediate compliance, even from inwardly squeamish students.

This is because they believe that what is given in immediate experience is absolutely certain, and any mode of «knowledge» which departs at all from such immediacy (for instance, an inference from experience) is to some degree doubtful.

Now it does seem to me that our immediate awareness of our own self and its experiences shows us that the process of unification is really an abstraction from the acts of unification done by a unified being.

If all human experience arises from sensation, and if sensation is understood as what Whitehead calls «perception in the mode of presentational immediacy,» then indeed each of us is shut in to her or his immediate experience.

The result is that, quite apart from the immediate pleasure which any sensible experience may give us, our own general moral attitude in procuring or undergoing the experience brings with it a secondary satisfaction or distaste.

This nation, through a varied history, rich in external and internal experience, had become far removed from the primitive life of immediate dependence on nature, in which neighboring Oriental peoples still more or less lingered.

It is clear, however — and confirmed through an examination of his Harvard lectures from this period (see below)-- that the «evolution» to which Whitehead refers here is not macroscopic biological or geological evolution, but the transition from the immediate past to the novel subjective experience of the immediate present.

It is clear from the context, moreover, that Whitehead is concerned primarily with the «emergence of novel features in immediate occasions of experience, beyond that indicated by the constraints of the immediate past on such experience.

Thus Brightman distinguishes other selves (within which category he includes one's own physical make - up) from inferences about the past and future of one's own self because these inferences concern immediate experiences (either actual or hypothetical) of one's own self alone.

Yet if we are to judge purely on the basis of immediate aesthetic quality, of «intensity» in a Whiteheadian sense, on what grounds are we to prefer the experience of «passive» contemplation to that which comes from the active exercise of instrumental reason?

The demand for immediate, powerful and deep religious experience, which was part of the turn away from future - oriented instrumentalism toward present meaning and fulfillment, could on the whole not be met by the religious bodies.

It is, of course, our story: the threat, real or simply paranoid; the flight in terror through the wilderness of despair; the wonder of sustenance in the desert; the darkness, the stillness, the strangely comforting loneliness of the cave in which we spend a night or a week or however long it takes for the noise and fury of our hell to subside; the perception of the gift, now, of gentle silence; the miracle, then, of the discovery anew of the «isness» of the Word, but the immediate, bitter protest against it because it will not let us stay in this place of haven from storm, this realm of the silence of gentleness, because it sends us back again, and because it rebukes the pride of our paranoia, our monumental sense of absolutely unique commitment and persecution; and finally our return, to call an Elisha on the way and to resume the work of ministry to Word of God and word of earth, renewed by the whole kaleidoscopic experience of the trip to the Cave.

Whitehead risks this double crisis in scientific study by presuming from this point on that our experience of reality issues concretely in a flow of «perceptions, sensations, and emotions,» and that we are induced only by the forms of order in our thought to fancy that we have an immediate experience of a «neat, trim, tidy, exact world» (OT 109, 110).

So while it would be admitted that Whitehead has redefined both Bradley's feeling and his immediate experience by (so to speak) peeling them off from each other, nevertheless Whitehead's redefined feeling would still be seen as endowed with the substrative status that in Bradley was accorded to immediacy.

Thus — summarizing briefly in the light of the preceding discussion — it now becomes evident that Whitehead has not merely separated out Bradley's feeling from Bradley's immediate experience, but completely purged the former of the substrative status given it by the latter.

He charges empiricists with having committed the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness by giving us an interpretation which isolates the immediate sensory contents from their total role within experience.

But he voiced a message and a complaint which found an immediate and extraordinary response at every level of society, from that of the deepest spiritual experience to that of the most practical economic and political realities.

Furthermore, Christ not only suffered because of our sin and our own personal griefs, but He also suffered with us in His immediate presence to us from Gethsemane, so that the consolation in grace that we may experience, and even that we do not experience, finds its root in the love and consolation that Jesus breathes on us even in His suffering:

For Thanksgiving Day takes our thought away from the immediate foregrounds of our experience and recalls to memory our historic background.

Elana, once again I am so grateful for you and all that you share and do and I had just the other day wished that you had more info on Keto since I can understand you better than others out there that I try to read... and you share from your heart and experience which I appreciate so much and I felt an immediate connection to you when I first found you a few months ago.

However, the experience hasn't put Benitez off from making an immediate return to management, with suggestions that he wants to return to the Premier League.

«Overwhelmingly positive and consistent feedback from our patients has confirmed we are meeting that need for immediate care without having to go to a hospital emergency room, which can be traumatic in and of itself ««regardless of the severity of the injury,» says STAT MED's Dr. Allan Drabinsky, another of STAT MED's experienced emergency medicine physicians.

While all but three states now have laws requiring immediate removal from play of athletes with concussion signs or symptoms and prohibit same - day return to play for those with suspected concussion, some are concerned that such laws may have the perverse effect of making the under - reporting problem even worse, fearing that an athlete is going to be even less likely to self - report experiencing concussion symptoms and more likely to hide symptoms from teammates, game officials and sideline personnel if they know that a suspected concussion may sideline them for the rest of the game.

Home birth, mama is a nurse for maternity home health company, faced opposition but support from immediate family, had some formative and transformative experiences that were precursors for a deciding on a home birth, devoured much research on positive births and home births and empowered herself with it, lots of visualisation, hand s and knees swaying, followed the urge to moan and it felt good, bath, natural endorphins produce a feeling as «high as a kite», felt her own baby, skin to skin bonding, ready to have another one!

Traumatic birthing experiences, like the use of drugs to induce labor and numb pain, internal electrode probes screwed onto baby's scalp, forceps, C - section, immediate cord clamping, suctioning, rough handling, bright lights, separation from mom and being left alone in a nursery incubator etc., can be hard - wired into a deep memory base that you, as a now functioning adult, can't even remember, let alone access!

We experienced near immediate relief from our pain and we have been relieved from it ever since.

Free recall is the ability to remember items from a list, while working memory is a type of short - term memory that involves immediate conscious experiences.

Aside from the immediate career benefits, Kadukova says that the experience of living abroad has helped her be more open to different cultures and ways of life.

The chance to interact with people from outside your immediate discipline, to learn from them, and to offer your own advice and knowledge in terms of report content and presentation is a very rewarding experience.

«By initially storing information about the new experience in the hippocampus, we make it available for immediate use and we also keep it around so that it can be replayed back to the cortex, interleaving it with ongoing experience and stored information from other relevant experiences.»

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